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James Henry Clinger

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James Henry Clinger

Birth
Bedford, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
6 Sep 1884 (aged 71)
Pleasant Grove, Utah County, Utah, USA
Burial
Provo, Utah County, Utah, USA
Plot
Block 4, Lot 11
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FAMILY SEARCH. When James Clinger was born on 3 February 1813, in Bedford, Bedford, Pennsylvania, his father, Henry Clinger (1787-1821), was 25 and his mother, Nancy Ann Reader Ashcom (1788-1874), was 25. He married Harriet Chapin (1828-1883) on 1 December 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Provo, Utah, Utah in 1860. He died on 6 September 1884, in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, at the age of 71, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah.

MORMON PIONEER OVERLAND TRAIL. The James Clinger family … James Clinger (1813-1884), Harriet Chapin Clinger (1828-1883), Martha Ann Clinger (1846-1940), James Henry Clinger (1849-1926), and Elmira Zallotta Clinger (1851-1852) … were part of the Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel migration between 1847-1868.

The family are among the 293 individuals and about 65 wagons in the Thomas C. D. Howell Company when it began its journey on June 7, 1852 from the outfitting post at Kanesville, Iowa (now Council Bluffs). Members of this church wagon train began arriving in the Salt Lake Valley on September 2, 1852.

Tragedy struck the family on July 5, 1852 when year-old Elmira Zallotta Clinger became ill and died on 5 July 1852. She was buried alongside the Mormon Trail.

From Burial Record
Father: Henry Clinger
Mother: Ann (Nancy) Reader Ashcom Clinger
father of 12 children -

James was a wainwright and clever mechanic able to repair any kind of machinery. He was given the assignment, by LDS church leaders tot set up a Wagon Repair Shop to help Saints traveling across the plains to Utah.

baby girl they lost along the trail:
Clinger, Elmira Zallotta
Birth Date: 26 Apr. 1851
Death Date: 5 July 1852
Gender: Female
Age: 1
Company: Thomas C.D. Howell Company (1852)
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
According to the Ancestral File, she died en route 5 July.
FAMILY SEARCH. When James Clinger was born on 3 February 1813, in Bedford, Bedford, Pennsylvania, his father, Henry Clinger (1787-1821), was 25 and his mother, Nancy Ann Reader Ashcom (1788-1874), was 25. He married Harriet Chapin (1828-1883) on 1 December 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Provo, Utah, Utah in 1860. He died on 6 September 1884, in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, at the age of 71, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah.

MORMON PIONEER OVERLAND TRAIL. The James Clinger family … James Clinger (1813-1884), Harriet Chapin Clinger (1828-1883), Martha Ann Clinger (1846-1940), James Henry Clinger (1849-1926), and Elmira Zallotta Clinger (1851-1852) … were part of the Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel migration between 1847-1868.

The family are among the 293 individuals and about 65 wagons in the Thomas C. D. Howell Company when it began its journey on June 7, 1852 from the outfitting post at Kanesville, Iowa (now Council Bluffs). Members of this church wagon train began arriving in the Salt Lake Valley on September 2, 1852.

Tragedy struck the family on July 5, 1852 when year-old Elmira Zallotta Clinger became ill and died on 5 July 1852. She was buried alongside the Mormon Trail.

From Burial Record
Father: Henry Clinger
Mother: Ann (Nancy) Reader Ashcom Clinger
father of 12 children -

James was a wainwright and clever mechanic able to repair any kind of machinery. He was given the assignment, by LDS church leaders tot set up a Wagon Repair Shop to help Saints traveling across the plains to Utah.

baby girl they lost along the trail:
Clinger, Elmira Zallotta
Birth Date: 26 Apr. 1851
Death Date: 5 July 1852
Gender: Female
Age: 1
Company: Thomas C.D. Howell Company (1852)
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
According to the Ancestral File, she died en route 5 July.

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